Abdominal mucormycosis in a child: a case report

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Felipe Rezende Caino de Oliveira, Nimara Grace Cardoso Batista Couto, Juliana de Oliveira Bastos, José Colleti Junior, Werther Brunow de Carvalho
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
• Subjects: Mucormycosis; Pediatric abdominal pain; Amphotericin B; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0172-2016; https://doaj.org/article/4866afa67651424eb32160e05a3e4322

Abstract A 2-year-old Brazilian female child from the countryside in Bahia State presented with pain in the right flank of the abdomen, accompanied by a daily fever for about 2 weeks before admission. A large mass in the abdomen was resected by the surgical team. The biopsies revealed the mass was an intra-abdominal mucormycosis. However, the diagnosis was late, and despite treatment (amphotericin B) initiation, the patient eventually died.